• Summer Teacher Institute 2025: “Teaching the Three Muslim Empires in the First Global Era”

    ICC 241, CCAS Georgetown University ICC #241, 3700 O St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

    There are many complexities and contradictions in teaching about the First Global Era from 1450 to 1750. The Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Empires arose alongside the overall expansion of Islam into new Asian and African regions. As “gunpowder empires,” they owed their conquests to the weapons of mass destruction of that age–cannons, artillery, and hand-held […]

  • Summer Teacher Institute 2023: “The Long 19th Century in the Middle East and North Africa, and Its Global Impact”

    ICC 241, CCAS Georgetown University ICC #241, 3700 O St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Annual institute sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding The Summer Teacher Institute 2023 will continue the thread of past institutes for educators looking at the MENA region in a global context, and in close relation to European cultural trends that play a major role in […]

    Free
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